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The Arrogance of Power by Anthony Summers
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-23 | Author:Anthony Summers

_____ Nixon wanted “permanent tails” placed on “Teddy”—Edward Kennedy—“Muskie”—Senator Edmund Muskie, the likely Democratic front-runner—and “Hubert”—Humphrey, the former vice president Nixon had narrowly defeated in 1968. Muskie and Kennedy were ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
Jeb Stuart, The Last Cavalier by Burke Davis
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-07-24 | Author:Burke Davis

Half the staff were in love with the Dandridge girls or their visiting cousins, and the house was under constant siege. Young Pelham courted several and squired them in a ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
Escape From the Land of Snows_The Young Dalai Lama's Flight to Freedom by Stephan Talty
mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Stephan Talty

After a few hours of exchanging gunfire with the Chinese at the transport station, Soepa realized the PLA was winning. “Their bullets were finding their mark and many were killed ...
( Category: Historical June 15,2017 )
Worthy Opponents by Edward Longacre
epub |eng | 2010-04-03 | Author:Edward Longacre

Sherman’s troops destroying Jackson, Miss. The only item of interest that Sherman left out of his report was that in advancing on Jackson he had engaged for the first time ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
Descent into Darkness by Edward Raymer
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Edward Raymer

VI USS West Virginia FIRE PHENOMENON On the day of the attack, the West Virginia was struck by seven torpedoes that opened a three-hundred-foot-long hole in her port side. A ...
( Category: Military June 15,2017 )
Thirty Rooms to Hide In: Insanity, Addiction, and Rock 'N' Roll in the Shadow of the Mayo Clinic by Luke Longstreet Sullivan
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-08-30 | Author:Luke Longstreet Sullivan

The Millstone gates at night. THINGS THAT WERE SCARIER THAN DAD We used to play an incredibly scary version of hide-and-seek called “Beaster.” It was the last organized game any ...
( Category: Americas June 15,2017 )
Servants' Hall by Margaret Powell
epub |eng | | Author:Margaret Powell [Powell, Margaret]

17 Now that Rose had a baby she seemed more contented, though still averse to the idea of moving into a large country house. She wanted to stay with her ...
( Category: Memoirs June 15,2017 )
Frock-Coated Communist by Hunt Tristram
epub |eng | 2009-03-15 | Author:Hunt, Tristram

The failures of 1525 and 1848–9 were not just a question of economic base and political superstructure being out of kilter, they were also the product of extensive military blunders. ...
( Category: Historical June 15,2017 )
Cairo by Ahdaf Soueif
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Ahdaf Soueif

2.00 p.m. Nahla Hetta calls. Can I meet her in Amr Helmy’s office now? I walk up to the Ministry of Health. He says there’s been a decision that the ...
( Category: Middle East June 15,2017 )
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman
epub |eng | 2008-09-16 | Author:Barton Gellman [Gellman, Barton]

Losses were not always permanent for the vice president. Nor were they obvious, because Cheney cloaked them in loyal public support. He stepped aside when Bush felt strongly, swallowing disagreements ...
( Category: Historical June 15,2017 )
Life And Fate by Vasily Grossman
epub |eng | | Author:Vasily Grossman [Grossman, Vasily]

24 It was very cold when Viktor, Lyudmila and Nadya arrived in Moscow. Snow was falling. Alexandra Vladimirovna was still in Kazan; Viktor had promised to get her a job ...
( Category: Historical June 15,2017 )
Edward VII by Richard Davenport-Hines
epub |eng | 2016-01-09 | Author:Richard Davenport-Hines [Davenport-Hines, Richard]

4 ‘… and Every Inch the First Gentleman in Europe’ A new trans-European railway system, steamships and his own questing nature made Edward VII the best-travelled member of the royal ...
( Category: Historical June 15,2017 )
Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Geoff Dyer [Dyer, Geoff]

Bruce Chatwin doesn’t even get near to that kind of responsiveness and suggestiveness in the three hundred pages of The Songlines. ‘Have you noticed how often a writer’s letters are ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 15,2017 )
The Woman Behind the New Deal by Kirstin Downey
epub |eng | 2009-06-14 | Author:Kirstin Downey [Downey, Kirstin]

SOCIAL SECURITY oblessness. Strikes. Immigration. Huge new public works programs. By 1934, Frances certainly had a full plate. But instead of conserving her strength or allowing herself to become distracted ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People June 15,2017 )
Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-06-14 | Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski [Kapuściński, Ryszard]

The historic role of a hare? Scholars agree that it was the Scythians who stopped Darius’s march on Europe. If this hadn’t happened, the fate of the world might have ...
( Category: Travel Writing June 15,2017 )

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